<p>I’m sorry, I wasn’t trying to spin discussion into a premed topic. OP indicated father believed there was one way for college (Yale, or perhaps other elite school) and then maybe onto med school, whereas OP seemed to want to go another way for college, maybe med school. OP asked for facts that she could use to show her father that would support her position that there were other alternatives than Yale. I tried to show that it was rather easy to find people who had been successful in medicine and reached positions, some quite prominent, at elite medical programs (including Yale) via pathways that didn’t involve going through the elite college/med school route. I suspect that I could just as easily find people in corporate, legal, etc worlds who had success through less elite college/professional school pathways as well</p>